The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in
this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in
connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting;
nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F.
Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of
cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for
consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged
people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and
weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from
within out, and of stinging character. "Giving-out" sensation. Fatty
degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in
small spot on left side Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

Mind.--

Despondent. Alternating moods. Very
irritable. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as
if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone. Never quiet or contented. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

Head.--

Vertigo on turning. Headache from
riding in cold wind. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching
in occiput, one-sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out (Fluor ac).

Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver
troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from
left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.

Menses early, profuse (Calc
c) or too late, pale and scanty, with
soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in
abdomen. Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to chest. Delayed menses in
young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult, first menses. Complaints
after parturition. Uterine hæmorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with
violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.

Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to
digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure.

Back.--

Great exhaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and
right scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and
paralytic feeling in back. Burning in spine (Guaco).
Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip-disease. Pain in nates and
thighs and hip-joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to
thighs.

Extremities.--

Backs and legs give out.
Uneasiness heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing pain in limbs with swelling.
Limbs sensitive to pressure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist.
Lacerating in wrist-joint. Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to
sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very
sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from
hip to knee. Pain in knees.

Skin.--

Burning as from a mustard plaster.

Sleep.--

Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and
cannot sleep again.

Modalities.--

Worse, after
coition; in cold weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on
left and painful side. Better, in warm weather, though
moist; during day, while moving about.

Relationship.--

Complementary: Carbo;
(Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to
the point that Kali carb would come in helpfully). Follows Nux
often in stomach and bladder troubles.